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Installing a Cobblewood Floor

Birger Juell visits the home to supervise instalation of this unique floor. Use 3/8 or 1/2 inch thickness of wood. Type of wood is user preference but it should be as dry as possible. The wood tiles can be just about any size or shape as long as they are not too large or warping will occur. The grout for the cobblewood flooring is composed of sawdust from the wood mixed with a fast-drying oil-based sealer in a ratio of 2 parts sawdust to 1 part sealer add any stain to grout to your liking.Insure you have a standard sub-floor. First glue floor down, use regular tile mastic as an adhesive. rubber based instead of Water based is best. Let set for two days... Then grout, Pour the grout on the floor push it into the cracks using a rubber trowel or your hands. Trowel in the grout. Squeegee off the excess. Steel wool the face of the wood tiles to remove any remaining excess grout that could dry to the top of the bricks. Let it sit over night and then apply another coat of oil-based sealer the next day. Let set for one day. Then do final coat of varnish, stain etc. Maintain like any wood floor. Oil it every 2 years using wood floor oil. Varnish once a year. Buff once a month.
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Installing a Cobblewood Floor

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" Okay right now we're gonna talk with Bernard -- and -- you pretty much developed this type of flooring the president it's just beautiful idea. Well I came to may have clipped them all lumber out of an old factory him. Donnelly progress in fact this that I got millions of vehicles wearing appropriate. By -- you for about six. And we used in a machine shop so they paint the floors in the machine shut down or be shot during and attraction that we can put -- durable yet. Felt. And equipped and wood rot in -- it did Welch's what you gonna do -- took it home not let it in Kirkuk. And look to this Great Britain that you have I would have brought stability sure. To put together sample. And put it in my children. And people -- that so. It's all you do is you take old beams from Barnes now that we take whereby all gone yet and yet being. -- them to whatever dimension we want -- And end in Japan bedroom and install fantastic that. All you do put a little beveled edge on it and you get the feeling won't cobblestone album kind of desperate to cover what some executives thought with chuck about the installation profit -- You've already well you've already."

" It's some down what it would take it back what's the first consideration here. Percent -- is now about the room. Start right down the center of the room -- with a chalk line squared up both what is. So this is a twelve foot wide grooming you went to the -- feet what about the subfloor that we gave it was a good enough -- as a good Sydney's we're pretty sound recorder and plywood subfloor right all of them installed installed over -- yes. Now the next move is just do them. Keep putting down snap lines to keep it fairly uniform do you do it in sections put it -- idea about five rose at a time as I've done here have set up here in fact rose all right. And you have to put down a chalk line for each row or right just TV uniformed. That are marked are reading. So you're here hold of ways and worth big blow in there. And it. OK so that you're actually going into sections. Five across what about the mastic that masters her based I don't want is a water based mastic that is correct. Why not. It it'll cut the wood. I got about and a quarter inch trial. Cook. That's clearly fans. The line -- I like the look of that mastic it's nice and do it. I usually start on the outside just -- it fairly uniform. Press them into place. And distill into the middle and you're going absolutely randomly right you're not trying to match one tile to the other now try to keep is that random responsible. I noticed I don't have a big not you have to worry about not popping out. Here's Leah than that since they're going to pop out -- guns though isn't. He's in the spacing embodiment. Little plus or minus trying to keep the lines. Fairly uniform. What's the nature of the of the grout the of the mastic how long will it be. Let's talk like that before you can go to your next step it takes a full two days before you can go to the drowning process. Where -- can really walk on the floor OK. To do the last waltz and the wall cuts I'll put a piece of plywood down work on top of that. This section of the kitchen floors has had two days to set up the -- figured all right now chuck what is this process. -- in the ground. And what is the grout it's not like what you would use with ceramic tile would have enough votes meg with -- from the us from the hood yet. Missile defense trying to oil based sealer and you. What's the ratio of the -- Two parts that's about one parts Bob liquid great looking stuff on -- and you just dump it down there on the floor. Which imminent cracks using rubber. School there right you can do with your hand through with a trowel. They got the excess and some parts we -- in that beautiful little break. -- And in -- Steel won't face some take out the excess costs as underwriters after the brakes yet. And then how long does this have to sit before you can us. Walk out of there is there another batten. Overnight the next day come back and put on another coat of oil based sealer. "

" Now murder how much maintenance is required the floor like this. They're really very little of -- dial a couple of times every every few years. Watch that one senior Buffett once a month there you believe you -- regularly dips and it is the kind of northern really take on a beautiful pristine beautiful."

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